How Long to Read Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men

How Long Does it Take to Read Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 17 minutes to read Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men by Margaret Greer

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Description

Mar&ía de Zayas y Sotomayor (1590&–1650?) published two collections of novellas, Novelas amorosas y exemplares (1637) and Desenga&ños amorosos (1647), which were immensely popular in her day. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Victorian and bourgeois sensibilities exiled her &“scandalous&” works to the outer fringes of serious literature. Over the last two decades, however, she has gained an enthusiastic and ever-expanding readership, drawing intense critical attention and achieving canonical status as a major figure of the Spanish Golden Age. In this first comprehensive study of Zayas&’s prose, Margaret R. Greer explores the relationship between narration and desire, analyzing both the &“desire for readers&” displayed by Zayas in her Prologue and the sexual desire that drives the telling within the novellas themselves. Greer examines Zayas&’s narrative strategies through the twin lenses of feminist and psychoanalytic theory. She devotes close attention to the weight of Renaissance literary traditions and the role of Zayas&’s own cultural context in shaping her work. She discusses Zayas&’s biography and the reception of her publications; her advocacy of women&’s rights; her conflictive loyalty to an aristocratic, patriarchal order; her crafting of feminine tales of desire; and her erasure of the frontiers between the natural and supernatural, indeed, between love and death itself. In so doing, Greer offers an expansive analysis of this recently rediscovered Golden Age writer.

How long is Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men?

Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men by Margaret Greer is 486 pages long, and a total of 124,416 words.

This makes it 164% the length of the average book. It also has 152% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 19 minutes to read Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men aloud.

What Reading Level is Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men?

Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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